On Dec 15, 2012, at 04:21 PM, Yuval Greenfield wrote:
Over 50% of the top 200 most downloaded packages on PyPI are python 3 compatible.
This is really fantastic. We're turning a corner and I think we're at the point were *not* having Python 3 support means the package is crufty and old. :) It's great to see big projects like Twisted and Django getting their first Python 3 compatible versions in people's hands too.
So http://python3wos.appspot.com/ has become the Python 3 Wall of Superpowers.
It took 4 years from the initial python 3.0 release.
So we're ahead of Guido's schedule, eh? :)
No one expected 3.0 to be picked up as fast as any 2.X increment, though 4 years feels like a bit much to me.
Too me, it feels like the right time. We've been making a big push in Ubuntu to get our important packages ported over to Python 3, and I know that can't have happened without lots of excellent contributions all across the Python universe. There are still a few packages that cause us pain (I'm looking at you Xapian ;), but all-in-all, it's really fantastic.
Anyways, congratulations to us & python!
Indeed. Keep up the great work, and maybe we'll kill off Python 2 in another 4 years. :) Cheers, -Barry